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Ask HN: Are there any computer interfaces for not humans?
I have a large amount of different animals living around me (pets and cattle) and I want to set up some experiments where two familiar to each other animals are supposed to contact each other via wire. I want to do this to dogs and chicken because these species are the easiest to obtain and to live with.
Are there any researches about how to interest a dog to stare in a monitor like we the humans do with smartphones? I am interested in: preparing monitor in comfortable for animal manner, input device (how many buttons does it need), output device such as reward giver etc.
- jjgreen 3y agoThere are conferences on ACI (Animal-Computer Interaction) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/2995257 https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/2995257
- h2odragon 3y agoDogs hearing is such that we can't reproduce sound without them knowing its artificial. I'm pretty sure they don't see screens the same way as we do, or as very similar to the real thing, either. I suspect this will be a problem in any experiment where the technology gets between the dog and its interest. Why the computer mediation? What're you hoping to learn from mediated interactions that you wouldn't learn from in person, physical contact interactions? Critters say so much to each other through smell anyway; a conversation over a video link will not be about the same things that they'd discuss when they can smell each other.
- eimrine 3y agoWe have an ape-to-human communication (Koko) and this is a huge success in researching animal's mind. I would like to do an animal-to-animal communication but with computer-in-the-middle. I have an expectation that top notch birds (parrots/corvus) can do this and I am going to have a really smart birds somewhere in future as pets. But before I am ready to live with that notoriously hard species I would like to start a trial-and-error process with easier species. I have no expectations of breakthrough result with easier species but I definitely have expectation of some result with dogs or chicken because I use to live with them for decades and probably I can make them to produce some results.
- haspoken 3y agoScientists teach pigs how to play video game with a joystick https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26104929 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26104929 https://pbgossiptv.com/pigs-playing-video-games-expand-our-notions-of-animal-intelligence/ https://pbgossiptv.com/pigs-playing-video-games-expand-our-n... Parrots learn to make video calls to chat with other parrots: study https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35664219 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35664219 Animal-computer interaction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%E2%80%93computer_interaction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%E2%80%93computer_intera...